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Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Bhante and the Bodhisattva Spirit (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 9 Aug, 2025 - 11:00

Dayanandi shares how she was encouraged and inspired by Bhante’s teachings on the Bodhicitta spirit. “Bhante encouraging shared collective community the creative conditions challenged us to go beyond us. As we were young and had a lot of energy, we took on Bhante’s task of creating the conditions for the Bodhicitta to arise. It was spiritually nurturing to attend Bhante’s lectures. They were very strong. It was through Bhante’s dedicated, clear mind and friendliness, by him sharing...

Free Buddhist Audio
Free Buddhist Audio

Last Glimpses of Sangharakshita (FBA Podcast)

By Centre Team on Sat, 2 Aug, 2025 - 11:00

In the weeks following Urgyen Sangharakshita’s death in 2018, Mahamati, one of his secretaries and companions, spoke informally at a number of Order gatherings about the experience of working closely with him during the last fifteen or so years of his life. Here, Mahamati reflects on aspects of their time together, and on aspects of Sangharakshita’s personality and character which were not always visible publicly. We are afforded a series of glimpses into the concerns of his...

Adhisthana
Adhisthana

108 hours of circumambulation

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 28 Jul, 2025 - 15:14

108 hours of circumambulation

By Maitriyogini on Mon, 28 Jul, 2025 - 15:14

Tune into our 108 hours of continual circumambulation around Sangharakshita’s burial mound. Our third year in a row, there is someone walking around constantly for the next few days. 

Windhorse Publications
Windhorse Publications

‘Reimagining Buddhism’ coming soon in 2025!

By Windhorse Publi... on Thu, 3 Apr, 2025 - 11:10

‘Reimagining Buddhism’ coming soon in 2025!

By Windhorse Publi... on Thu, 3 Apr, 2025 - 11:10

We are delighted to give you a preview of an important new book by Vishvapani, which is due out in August 2025.

Reimagining Buddhism: Understanding Sangharakshita and his Teachings is a sparkling, deeply felt and penetrating account of the English Buddhist teacher, Urgyen Sangharakshita (1925–2018) – one of the most complex and brilliant figures in modern Buddhism. 

Drawing on the whole of Sangharakshita’s vast output, Vishvapani argues that Sangharakshita was primarily an ‘image thinker.’ He then sets out to trace the...

Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration
Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 - 11:00

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Fri, 14 Mar, 2025 - 11:00

Sanghadevi shares some important interactions and observances of Bhante Sangharakshita through his involvement in the Movement and Order.

Triratna News
Triratna News

Sangharakshita 100: A Garland of Rejoicings 💐

By Jnanadhara on Fri, 21 Feb, 2025 - 20:56

Sangharakshita 100: A Garland of Rejoicings 💐

By Jnanadhara on Fri, 21 Feb, 2025 - 20:56

The Triratna Buddhist Community was founded by Urgyen Sangharakshita and 2025 marks the one hundredth anniversary of his birth. For this special anniversary year our online celebration of Triratna Day will be a rejoicing in his life and qualities. 

In each of the three sessions we will hear from three Order members - from different generations and parts of the world - about life changing encounters they had with Sangharakshita and the qualities that were communicated through those encounters. 

Speakers include: Akasaka (UK/Finland),...

College of Public Preceptors
College of Public Preceptors

Letter from the Chair of the College – February 2025

By Mahamati on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 00:00

Letter from the Chair of the College – February 2025

By Mahamati on Sat, 1 Feb, 2025 - 00:00

Dear Order members and friends,

In 1949, when visiting Bodhgaya for the first time, Sangharakshita wrote a poem called ‘The Birthplace of Compassion’. Now, seventy-five years later, on the centenary of his birth, I send this letter from this very place, where around 800 members of the Order that Sangharakshita went on to found, are gathered for an International Order Convention.

Here, where the Goatherd’s banyan-tree
O’ershadowed, was, to world forlorn,
The first child of Enlightenment,
...

Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration
Sangharakshita 100: A Celebration

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Sat, 18 Jan, 2025 - 11:00

Stories of Sangharakshita

By Maitriyogini on Sat, 18 Jan, 2025 - 11:00

Padmavajra shares some key moments with Sangharakshita from his long life in the order touching on some important lessons that still have relevance for him today.

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